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I still have the back cover from one of the 1992 HLASM mailers that has a picture of Dr. John with the caption, "Dr. John, I feel powerless. I can't cope, and my motivation is waning. What's wrong?" Regards, John K Sharuff Morsa3 of the IBM Mainframe Assembler List <[email protected]> wrote on 06/21/2012 09:36:35 AM: > High Level Assembler (HLASM) was first released on the 26th June 1992. Dr > John Ehrman was responsible for the planning and architecture of HLASM. > HLASM is IBM's standard assembler for the zOS, zVM and zVSE operating > systems. HLASM is built and supported from a common code base, and as you > would expect, is written in High Level Assembler. > > John took the initiative for creating High Level Assembler as a follow up > product to the older Assembler F and Assembler H; and he is widely > regarded as the "father of HLASM". > > John has led the work to deliver improvements and enhancements for HLASM > and without his dedication and enthusiasm, HLASM would not be the superb > product it is today. > > John's 'partners in crime' were the IBM Australia Development Lab in > Perth. They constantly delivered innovation; high quality code; ensured > the product was stable; and ensured the investment made by IBM and our > customers in both the old and new assemblers was maintained. They, > together with John extended the 'long reach' of HLASM from zOS, zVM and > zVSE to zLinux. > > Many thanks to John and the developers in Perth (many of them called John > - at one point I'm sure you couldn't work on HLASM unless your name was > John or possibly Craig). > > Without all of their hard work and dedication; the product, the language, > its many facilities, HLASM would not be what it is today. > > Happy Birthday HLASM. > > Sharuff > Unless stated otherwise above: > IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number > 741598. > Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU
